Re: Aliasing zmacs-regions, providing a transient-mark-mode

[email protected] (James A. Crippen) 06 Apr 2004 06:53:28 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.design
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:15:44 PDT, Brian Palmer <[email protected]>  said:
> 
> > Would there be support for a patch that simply does the equivalent of 
> > 
> > (defvar zmacs-regions nil
> >         "*Whether regions should be deactivated by most (non-motion) commands
> . 
> > ...")
> 
> I can't speak to the wisdom of the defvaralias, but the docstring fix would
> certainly be appreciated - I know that tripped *me* up for somewhere near
> forever (the rest of the docstring was actually helpful, once I actually
> got desperate and looked more closely)....

Please leave the LispM comment in the docstring somewhere for
nostalgic reasons.

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